The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-07-15
AL orcr The CnunfY.

AQuinton man has pea vines eight feet
high.
The heavy rains rave scalded the tomato
crop in Lower PENIS Neck.
John ID. Hillman, Of Warrington, has
three acres of pickles growing.
Miss Nellie w oodrufT, of Pleasant Grove,
is to teach the Grcenvillc school next year.
Samuel NJ. Kidd, of Alloway, picked
ripe peaches from a tree in his yard last
week.
Miss Emma Reeves has been engaged
to teach the Pole Tavern school for another
year.
The wife Of station agent Murphy, of
Alloway, is recovering from a serious i'll
ness.
Fifteen shares Of Salem Railroad stock
will be offered at public sale at Salem to-
morrow.
Benz. Cheesman is said to have the
finest melon patch in the vicinity of
Auburn.
Rev. Ephraim Barker, of Iowa, will
speak at the @wharf-meeting' in Salem
next Sunday evening.
John Berry, of Elmer, will have charge
of the Tenth avenue restaurant at Pitman
Grove during the camp season.
Miss Lottie Tullis is to teach at Olivet
during the next school year. Miss Tillie
Tuliis is to teach at Centreton.
The Pennsgrove Cornet Band and the
Red Men will make q joint excursion to
Atlantic City on Thursday, August II.
Andrew Weatherby, of Elsinboro, was
bit while attempting to separate two fight
inc dogs last week, and is now not able to
work.
Two men from Glassboro recently caught
sixteen snappers in two days in the Deal
town mill pond at Elmer. The largest
weighed IS pounds.
Sheriff Kelly, on Thursday, at the in
stance one OF the creditors, closed the
Salem Iron Works. 1t is expected, how
ever, that work will be resumed in a short
time.
Upper Neck has a curious looking we'd
ded couple when seen together. The man
is six feet nine inches high, and his wife is
not over four feet high, reaching her hus.
bands elbow.
A strange dog recently made an attack
on n flock of turkeys numbering thirty
seven belonging to job Stretch, of l.. a,
Creek, and before being discovered he had
| klilcu I'LL Dub pIc Vi tlie HOUR
J. Rulon Dare, of L. A. Creek, in com.
pany with Robert Buck, president of 'he
Cumberland Nail and Iron Company,
sailed for Southampton, England, last
week. They expect to be absent six
weeks.
Mrs. Isaac N. Davis, of l.. A. Creek, has
a black Spanish hen that celebrated its
sixth birthday recently by completing the
remarkable feat of laying a hundred and
fifty eggs in a hundred and fifty consecu
tive days.
A land-turtle was picked up the other
day on the farm neal Alloway which one
hundred years ago was owned and occupied
by Jacob Slough marked y. S., 1S0S.'
The marks had been nearly worn or had
grown out, but could be distinctly made
out.
The Salem court house was struck by
lightning last Friday afternoon, and a hole
was made in the gable end large enough to
admit the body of a man. The electric
bolt came down while the sun was shin
ing, although a heavy black cloud hung
in the northwest. Several men who were
standing on the sidewalk at the time were
knocked completely off their feet.
The large barn on the Charles Ne well
farm, tenanted by James Finnegan, was
totally destroyed by file last Friday after
noon, making the third one that has been
destroyed by fire inside Of three weeks,
in this immediate vicinity. Fortunately
no horses were burned, but the hay was all
destroyed, on which there was no IN
surancc. The barn was insured. The
fire was caused by n small boy and a
match.
Harry Sanders, a colored boy about Ia
years of age, was drowned in Salem creek
| on Tuesday. The lad, who, with his father
was employed at the Fairview Brick
| Works, had just eaten his dinner, and
gone into the water for a bath. He was
unable to swim, and walking out beyond
his depth was drowned before assistance
! conld reach him. His body was immedi-
ately recovered and taken to the home oil
his parents in Salem.